Leaderboard Zone

A glimpse of some of the thinking I’ve been doing about the impact of “data” on our culture. I am close (so damn close) to sealing myself off and into only thinking about this, for my book (OpenCoSF is my last big project till I do). But thanks to the Vibrant Data project for taking an interview I did at TED earlier this year, and making it into something that almost makes me look like I have my shit together. I attest, I do not. I hope soon, I will.

3 thoughts on “On Data”

[...] an insightful piece on the changing role of journalists. John Battelle has been discussing how data wars will manipulate or transform our collective consciousness. And of course, Clay Shirky has been [...]

I hope this is the sinopsis to your new book If/then…else….
If it is, then you will have made a small dent in the universe. Else, less people will wake up to the corporate control of data and the dent will be smaller.